Male relatives carry risk from breast cancer genes: study

Doctors are encouraging a new group to consider getting testedfor genes that raise the risk of breast cancer: men.

Male relatives of women with BRCA-1 or BRCA-2 genes often do notrealize they, too, may carry them, and face greater odds ofdeveloping male breast cancer, as well as prostate, pancreatic andskin cancer, new research suggests. The genes are most prevalentamong those of Eastern European Jewish descent.

"Everyone thinks of breast and ovarian cancer and just …